Willemijn Waal is university lecturer in Hittite at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies and director of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO).

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Website The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO)

Fields of interest

• Hittitology
• Late Bronze Age Anatolia
• Ancient writing systems and early alphabetic writing
• Ancient record management, diplomatics and archival studies
• Orality and Literacy in the ancient World
• Links between ancient Near Eastern and classical epic and literature
• International relations in the ancient Near East and Aegean

Teaching activities and supervision

• Advanced Hittite
• Cultural History of Anatolia
• Epic Tales from the Ancient World
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Cuneiform Epigraphy
• The Mycenaean World
• The present and future of our past: critical approaches to heritage studies

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